Re: Torrents mystifying and not seeded
Michael Loftis wrote:
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> --On December 1, 2005 11:09:57 PM -0800 David Liontooth
> <liontooth@cogweb.net> wrote:
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>> Greetings --
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>> On my persistent search for a working Debian testing iso, I'm trying
>> torrents from http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/weekly/torrents/i386/
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>> Why are these iso images of different sizes?
>> debian-testing-i386-binary-12.iso is 642.24MB and
>> debian-testing-i386-binary-1.iso is 630.01MB. These are clearly
>> different iso images, but they have the same date stamp in the
>> directory.
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>> Along the same line, where are there 14 different torrents? The point of
>> torrents is to have as many as possible download the same torrent.
>> Distribution is maximally effective with one single torrent.
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> Because those are each different discs. Debian burns out to something
> around 14 CDs ;) You only want the netinst or the first disc (or
> two? not sure certainly the first one!).
Great -- I did just figure that out by Googling around. Couldn't someone
please put a little README in those download directories saying what you
need -- a table of contents? This is way too user-unfriendly.
Dave
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>> Neither of these torrents are seeded and the download is stuck.
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>> I've spent six hours now trying to get a working Debian CD and have made
>> no headway.
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>> Dave
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